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What’s Missing from Google Earth? Traffic!

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This entry was posted on Friday, October 2nd, 2009 at 9:03 am and is filed under Cities, Congestion, Traffic Culture. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

4 Responses to “What’s Missing from Google Earth? Traffic!”

  1. Karl-On-Sea (Twitter: @karlonsea) Says:
    October 3rd, 2009 at 4:37 pm

    This quite freaked me out. Those “people” just walking around at 1:13 are plainly Cylon Centurions . . .

  2. fred_dot_u Says:
    October 4th, 2009 at 10:15 am

    The pedestrians at 1:38 appear to be on their way to participate in Atari 2600 Basketball!

  3. Bossi Says:
    October 5th, 2009 at 5:10 pm

    This is the start of something amazing… the potential for this nature of data is phenomenal, but so is the capability for the Big Brother crowd to cry foul (rightly so or not, I can’t say; but I certainly think it’s cool, nonetheless).

  4. Julia Says:
    October 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    Incorporating things such as real-time traffic conditions, or how full the parking lot is at the local DMV, into the applications that we use every day would be the saving grace of our CCTV riddled society. The days when we could feel any sense of privacy when we are in a public setting are long gone; we may as well get some benefit from it!

    I too think this is awesomely delicious!

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